I hope this isn't too much of a stupid question, I have looked on 5 different pages of Google results but haven't been able to find anything on this.
What I need to do is convert a string that contains all Hex characters into ASCII for example
String fileName =
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
Every way I have seen makes it seems like you have to put it into an array first. Is there no way to loop through each two and convert them?
Just use a for loop to go through each couple of characters in the string, convert them to a character and then whack the character on the end of a string builder:
String hex = "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";
StringBuilder output = new StringBuilder();
for (int i = 0; i < hex.length(); i+=2) {
String str = hex.substring(i, i+2);
output.append((char)Integer.parseInt(str, 16));
}
System.out.println(output);
Or (Java 8+) if you're feeling particularly uncouth, use the infamous "fixed width string split" hack to enable you to do a one-liner with streams instead:
System.out.println(Arrays
.stream(hex.split("(?<=\\G..)")) //https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2297347/splitting-a-string-at-every-n-th-character
.map(s -> Character.toString((char)Integer.parseInt(s, 16)))
.collect(Collectors.joining()));
Either way, this gives a few lines starting with the following:
uTorrent\Completed\nfsuc_ost_by_mustang\Pendulum-9,000 Miles.mp3
Hmmm... :-)
Check out Convert a string representation of a hex dump to a byte array using Java?
Disregarding encoding, etc. you can do new String (hexStringToByteArray("75546..."));
//%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% HEX to ASCII %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
public String convertHexToString(String hex){
String ascii="";
String str;
// Convert hex string to "even" length
int rmd,length;
length=hex.length();
rmd =length % 2;
if(rmd==1)
hex = "0"+hex;
// split into two characters
for( int i=0; i<hex.length()-1; i+=2 ){
//split the hex into pairs
String pair = hex.substring(i, (i + 2));
//convert hex to decimal
int dec = Integer.parseInt(pair, 16);
str=CheckCode(dec);
ascii=ascii+" "+str;
}
return ascii;
}
public String CheckCode(int dec){
String str;
//convert the decimal to character
str = Character.toString((char) dec);
if(dec<32 || dec>126 && dec<161)
str="n/a";
return str;
}
Easiest way to do it with javax.xml.bind.DatatypeConverter:
String hex = "75546f7272656e745c436f6d706c657465645c6e667375635f6f73745f62795f6d757374616e675c50656e64756c756d2d392c303030204d696c65732e6d7033006d7033006d7033004472756d202620426173730050656e64756c756d00496e2053696c69636f00496e2053696c69636f2a3b2a0050656e64756c756d0050656e64756c756d496e2053696c69636f303038004472756d2026204261737350656e64756c756d496e2053696c69636f30303800392c303030204d696c6573203c4d757374616e673e50656e64756c756d496e2053696c69636f3030380050656e64756c756d50656e64756c756d496e2053696c69636f303038004d50330000";
byte[] s = DatatypeConverter.parseHexBinary(hex);
System.out.println(new String(s));
String hexToAscii(String s) {
int n = s.length();
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(n / 2);
for (int i = 0; i < n; i += 2) {
char a = s.charAt(i);
char b = s.charAt(i + 1);
sb.append((char) ((hexToInt(a) << 4) | hexToInt(b)));
}
return sb.toString();
}
private static int hexToInt(char ch) {
if ('a' <= ch && ch <= 'f') { return ch - 'a' + 10; }
if ('A' <= ch && ch <= 'F') { return ch - 'A' + 10; }
if ('0' <= ch && ch <= '9') { return ch - '0'; }
throw new IllegalArgumentException(String.valueOf(ch));
}
So as I understand it, you need to pull out successive pairs of hex digits, then decode that 2-digit hex number and take the corresponding char:
String s = "...";
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(s.length() / 2);
for (int i = 0; i < s.length(); i+=2) {
String hex = "" + s.charAt(i) + s.charAt(i+1);
int ival = Integer.parseInt(hex, 16);
sb.append((char) ival);
}
String string = sb.toString();
To this case, I have a hexadecimal data format into an int array and I want to convert them on String.
int[] encodeHex = new int[] { 0x48, 0x65, 0x6c, 0x6c, 0x6f }; // Hello encode
for (int i = 0; i < encodeHex.length; i++) {
System.out.print((char) (encodeHex[i]));
}
Source: Stackoverflow.com